Writer to speak in Warwick about her struggles against the power of a chocolate biscuit

Audiences can hear her read extracts from The Real Me Is Thin at a Warwick Words Xtra event at the Bridge House Theatre in Warwick next month.

Lumped into the “too fat for potatoes group” by her mother, carefree eating isn’t something Arabella had much experience of when growing up.

Written with startling frankness, she unravels her own eating history in this humorous appraisal of our attitudes towards eating disorders and obesity. Not easy for someone who still can’t be alone unsupervised in a room with a packet of chocolate biscuits.

Charting Arabella’s neurotic relationship with food, from prolonged abstinence to binge eating, this comedy memoir recreates a childhood besieged with battles over food.

Arabella is the author of the best-selling Does my Bum Look Big In This? and is best know for her role in BBC2’s The Fast Show. She has often been heard on Radio 4 comedy series Smelling of Roses, recently appeared in E4’s teen drama Skins and was also in the West End show Calendar Girls.

The event takes place on Sunday July 3 at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 (£8 concessions) and are available by calling the Warwick Words box office on 776438 or at Warwick Books in Market Place, Warwick, and Kenilworth Books in Talisman Square, Kenilworth.